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Article: The Hittite Mediopassive Endings in -ri.
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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In the chapter introducing this work (pp. 1-43), Yoshida sets out the problem which he is to investigate and the course which he will follow in his investigation. The present mediopassive verb forms of Hittite are marked at times by the attachment of a final syllable -ri - a formant which is perhaps to be linked to the mediopassive -r of certain other Indo-European languages, namely Tocharian, Old Irish, and the Italic languages. Most of the previous investigators, or commentators, have treated the absence or presence of Hittite mediopassive -ri as a matter of free variation. Yoshida proposes to test the often assumed free-variable status of -ri by examining its synchronic ...
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